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Adena Springs - North America's Leading Breeding Farm, is proud to present its latest consignment of broodmares selling at OBS January. These mares will be sold in the consignor preferred section on January 6th. Once again, we have assembled a young and select group of broodmares in foal to Adena Stallions. With these carefully selected matings, Mr. Stronach hopes to give prospective buyers an opportunity to enjoy the same success he has achieved over the years. This is your opportunity to be part of a championship program that has won 5 Eclipse Awards and 8 Sovereign Awards as leading breeder.
In recent years we have sold the dams of these Graded stakes performers:
Ginger Punch - Champion and Multiple Grade 1 winner
Flower Alley - Grade 1 winner and stallion
Ginger Brew - Champion 3yr old filly
Giant Gizmo - Multiple Grade 3 winner
Harlem Rocker - Grade 3 winner and Grade 1 placed
This group of young mares, some of which are in foal for the first time to Adena Stallions, are by leading broodmares sires such as: Alphabet Soup, Arch, Awesome Again, Bertrando, Conquistador Cielo, Crafty Prospector, El Prado, Holy Bull, Honour and Glory, Montbrook, Mt. Livermore, Notebook, Nureyev, Out of Place, Phone Trick, Pine Bluff, Pleasant Tap, Polish Numbers, Quiet American, Runaway Groom, Salt Lake, Silver Charm, Siphon, Sky Classic, Smart Strike, Thunder Gulch, Touch Gold, Valid Expectations, Wild Again, and You and I.
Please take note of the following mares that have had exciting recent updates to their pedigrees:
Hip #139 Platinum Jewel: This is a half sister to the recently crowned Canadian Horse of the Year, and Champion Sprinter, Fatal Bullet. Fatal Bullet ran a very game second to Midnight Lute in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Sprint in his last start. Fatal Bullet is being pointed to the Grade 1 Malibu on Dec 26th in California. Platinum Jewel is in foal for the first time to 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Wilko who will have his first foals in 2009.
Hip #163 Storm Swirl: This is a half sister to the exciting 2yr old colt Capt. Candyman Can. Since the catalog, Capt. Candyman Can ran 3rd in a blanket finish in the Grade 3 Kentucky Jockey Club stakes at Churchill. He is a very exciting horse to watch, and he should find himself in the mix for the 2009 Kentucky Derby. This mare is in foal for the first time to a full brother of the Horse of the Year and Champion colt Ghostzapper. Aristocrat will have his first foals in 2009.
Hip #189 Don't You Worry: This is a half sister to the exciting 2yr old colt Skipadate. Skipadate broke his maiden impressively first time out at Saratoga this summer. He is now Graded stakes placed and has run in such premier stakes as the Grade 3 Delta Jackpot and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Don't You Worry is in foal to the leading Florida Second Crop sire Milwaukee Brew.
Hip #201 Spider Flower: Spider Flower comes from a young stakes producing family. Her half sister Sly Butterfly was purchased by Stonerside out of the Adena Springs Farm consignment if foal to Macho Uno for $410,000 at Keeneland November in 2007. She has since been transferred to the ownership of Darley. This mare is in foal for the first time to a full brother of the Horse of the Year and Champion colt Ghostzapper. Aristocrat will be having his first foals in 2009.
Hip #250 Pleasant Thunder: By a leading broodmare sire Thunder Gulch who is the sire of the dams of over 16 stakes winners. Her ½ sister, Jeux de Danse, recently took the Copano Stakes at Calder. Jeux de Danse now has updated earnings of over $220,000. Jeux de Danse will be pointed to Graded Stakes at the upcoming meet at Gulfstream. Pleasant Thunder is in foal to Florida's leading 2nd-crop sire Milwaukee Brew.